Online Courses

Android Training Syllabus

1.  Introduction

•        What is Android

•        Android Architecture

•        Android Application Fundamentals

•        Android Application Components

•        Security and Permissions

2. First Experience with ANDROID application

•        Android Installation and Eclipse

•        First Android application

•        Running and Debugging through DDMS

•        Android Project Structure

•        Android development Tools

 3. Activity and Intents

•        Activity Lifecycle

•        Declaring and Launching the Activities

•        Intents and Intent Filters

•        Linking Activities Using Intents

•        Calling Built-in Applications using Intents

•        Managing Android Resources

 4. Designing User Interface

•        Layouts and Screen Orientation

•        Basic Views (TextView, Button, ImageButton, EditText, CheckBox, ToggleButton, RadioButton, RadioGroup Views, ProgressBar,    SeekBar, AutoCompleteTextView)

•        Picker Views (TimePicker, DatePicker)

•        List Views (ListView, SpinnerView)

•        Styles and Themes

•        Creating the User Interface using Fragments

•        Creating the User Interface Programatically

 5. Menus, Dialogs and Images with Views

•        Using ImageViews to display Pictures (Gallery, ImageView, ImageSwitcher, GridView)

•        Using Menus with Views (Options Menu, Context Menu, Sub menus)

•        Additional Views (AnalogClock and DigitalClock views, WebView)

•        Adapter – Array Adapter, List Adapter, Simple CursorAdapter

•        AlertDialog, ProgressDialog, Toasts

 6. Files, Saving State and Shared Preferences

•        Saving Application Data

•        Creating and Saving Preferences

•        Retrieving Shared Preferences

•        Reading, Writing, Saving and Loading files

•        Including Static Files as Resources

•        Accessing SD Cards

7. Working with SQLite Database and Content Providers

•        Introduction

•        SQLite Database Helper and Creating a Database

•        Opening and Closing a Database

•        Working with Cursors Inserts, updates and deletes

•        Creating a new Content Provider

•        Using a Content Provider

•        Native Content Provider

 8. Telephony and SMS

•        Making Calls

•        Accessing Phone Properties and Status

•        Controlling the phone

•        Incoming and Outgoing Call Monitoring

•        Sending and Receiving SMS messages

•        Autosend an SMS Based on a Received SMS

9. Services and Threads

•        Introduction to Services, Life cycle of Service

•        Creating your own Services

•        Local Services and Remote Services

•        InterProcessCommunication(IPC) using Services

•        Using Background Threads, Handlers

•        Using AsyncTask

 10. Broadcast Receivers and Notifications

•        Introduction to Broadcast Receivers

•        Implementing your own Broadcast Receiver

•        System Broadcasts and How to use them

•        Notifications – Raising a notification

•        Handling multiple notifications

•        AlarmManager and Pending Intents

11. Multimedia and Camera

•        Simple media playback

•        Recording audio and video

•        Capturing Pictures using Camera

•        Setting the Picture as wallpaper

•        Camera Torch Application

12. Networking and Web Services

•        Sending an email

•        Downloading an Image from Internet

•        Monitoring and Managing Internet Connectivity

•        Android WebServices

•        Communication of Android with Servlets and PHP

•        JSON Parsing and XML Parsing

13. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

•        Bluetooth – Enabling and Disabling

•        Increasing Discoverable time for Bluetooth,

•        Wi-Fi Manager – Enabling and Disabling Wi-Fi

14. Android Integration

•      Android – FaceBook Integration

•      Android – Twitter Integration

•      Android – DropBox Integration

•      Android – Picasa Integration

15. Graphics and Animations

•        Drawing Graphics in Android

•        Working with Images and Operations on Images

•        Frame Animation and Tweened Animations

16. Maps and Location-based Services

•        Getting Location Data using Location Manager

•        Creating Map-based Activities

•        Finding the Current Location

17. Deployment of Android Application

•        Generating .apk file

•        Deploying the app onto the Device

•        Signing and Publishing the apps

 18. Miscallenous Topics